Petit Prince

Je n'ai toujours pas avancé la custo de cette doll. 

Pourtant je l'aime bien, j'en ai donc fait quelques photos d'une grande banalité:

Good robot

Rei is a good robot. He is obedient and calm, thoughtful, polite. He wants to fulfill his purpose.

Yet he is curious about all sort of things and underneath it all he has courage and determination of his own. And he may yet find a different purpose for himself than the one he knows of.

I changed Rei's face-up for the sake of giving him a slightly different expression, it's a lso a tiny bit less girlish, I think.

Face-up Tutorial

Well, not a real tutorial, just a walkthrough, actually.

Narsha and Zaoll face-up:

Unless I've skipped some I did these ones in three steps:
- First step defines the color  areas of the face, where which color goes, using the lighter shades of each tint. I also usually define the mouth line at that stage unless I forget it^^"
- Second step is for accentuating colors, use darker and more saturated variations, start working on the skin texture and define the eye-brow shapes. I usually try the eyes on at that point in order to make sure the facial expression is coming out fine.
- Third step comes with details: more skin texture, lashes, mouth details, eye-brow details, while the darker parts of the face-up get more dense color with extra layers of pastel.

And then a layer of gloss or two, and here we are :)

Petite nouvelle

C'est sans trop y réfléchir que j'ai enfin cédé à l'envie d'avoir une Narsha chez moi, et là voilà, c'est une petite chose merveilleuse et fort bien faite (sauf au niveau des genoux qui me posent quelques souci). 

Donc pas de regrets donc, mais beaucoup de questions que je me pose sur sa custo... qui n'est toujours absolument pas décidée. Mais peu importe, j'avais envie de lui faire quelques petites modifications sur le visage et un face-up, juste pour m'en faire une meilleure idée. 

Holyday Spirit!

I got myself a tiny Xmas tree this year, and of course I had to get some pictures of Rei with it.
Hope you all have a great holyday!

Doesn't it make you feel bad?

I just wrote a bunch of lines about recasts, a lot of arguments and feels. But I'm not positing those after all, what's the point?
All I really want to say is: I've been seeing a lot of recast BJD pictures on tumblr and various blogs recently, and it just really makes me sad.

BJD pictures 2012

I tried making a mozaic with my most popular doll pictures from this year, but nay, it definely does not represent everything that I've worked on. So here's a hand-picked selection :

So goals for next year: 
- Find myself a new mold to work with, and I'm already working on that...not getting anywhere right now.
- Get myself a dremel in order to attempt some nice advanced customizaton without hurting my hands.
- Make more creative photo sets, start with not using white background and pastel tones all the time.
- Sculpt more and have my sculpting finished, polished and done.
- Get better in face-ups!

Bleeding Bird

Switch Ruyn R that I brought from Ldoll, finally has a face!

 I should be putting him up for sale sometime soon.

No BJD stuff, have a picture instead %)

Well, what do we have here. This blog has been particulary unupdated, probably because I didn't do anything BJD-related ever since I got back from Ldoll. I think I'm going through a doll-block this time, it's not like I've decided to have a break though, it just doesn't...happen.
The fact that no BJD mold of a regular size appeals to me doesn't help either, and I'm still allergic to 60+ dolls. I still have many ideas and things I would want to do, but no motivation for whatsoever and no mold to put on my wishlist. So, well...

I wish I had a wishlist.

What is your dreamdoll? Or what is the next one that you're getting?

No wishlist for the moment, although I would gladly have a nother project started. I would want a Narsha but I don't think I get along with tiny dolls easilly. I could give a shot to the new unoa boys, but I've always hated how the unoa dolls pose, all of them, so I don't think it's going to be a must-have for me.
So what about you?

Ldoll 2012 - fin.

Voilà enfin, un petit mot sur le Ldoll 2012, j'ai tellement de choses à dire et en même temps tout mon blabla aura l'aire insignifiant à côté de tous les bons souvenirs que je vais garder précieusement.

J'ai été très heureuse de revoir tout ceux que j'ai pur rencontrer l'année dernière, ceux que je ne vois pas assez souvent et ceux dont j'ai enfin fait connaissance cette année. Je ne le dis pas assez (voir jamais) mais vous m'avez fait rêver avec votre déballage de créativité, de fraîcheur, de partage, d'enthousiasme, et de talent. J'ai beaucoup couru dans tous les sens pour tout voir et ne rien rater et au final je me rends compte que je suis passée à côté de plein de choses et pas profité assez des gens.
J'ai aussi senti pas mal d'exposants fatigués, usés (ce qui est normal, cela dit), j'espère quand même vous revoir dans un an, ne vous découragez surtout pas et continuez à nous faire rêver svp :)

Bref, à tout ceux qui étaient juste là tout comme moi, ceux qui ont bossé beaucoup trop dur pour nous émerveiller, et avant tout ceux qui ont organisé cet évènement aussi génial qu'attendu, un grand merci!

Comme cette année ma propre participation a été quasi inexistante, je vais essayer de me motiver au moins pour les concours à l'avenir, histoire de...contribuer un peu aussi à tout ça comme je peux.
Je suis repartie avec une tête switch pour faire mumuse, des accessoires sympa, un grand sourire et des projets plein la tête que je vais essayer de faire avancer un peu cette année...

Ldoll anyone?

How fast the time flies! Ldoll is next week end and I'll be there of course! Is anyone of you going?

I'll bring Ezekiel with me and probably Vice too ^^

Réi is staying at home since I brought him last year %)

One less?

I seriously think about selling this doll. I love its soft pastel color sheme and I really had fun taking pictures of it, but I think I could use some space and time for new ideas.

Pink!

This doll is always photogenic. It's almost exhasperating, none of my other bjd is. Or maybe it's that that I like white, beige and pink color combination...

Should I...?

Lately I was looking at my doll collection and a curisous thought left its seed in my mind - I could sell Ezekiel and get myself the same hybrid combination to have a base for Devin instead. Devin is an aquiatence o Rei's, he is a robot too and one character I would like to explore further on along with his interaction with Rei. The Dollstown elf body would suit him perfectly - much more then it does suit Ezekiel who is, unlike those other two, a real boy.
It would require modding the Dollstown elf body gender-wise yet again of course. This doesn't bothzr me that much though - since Devin is a robot the body mods would be much more deep and interesting then just female-to-male  regular stuff that I do not like doing.
But it would also mean that I need to mod the Zaoll head once again in order to have that lips, nose and eye shape that I like.
Aaaaand now that I think back to it, what gave me much pain about the Dollstown body were the legs : I've modified their shape that looked too chubby and the fat ankles in order to get the elegant thin legs that I like so much on Ezekiel. And that was a pain. And I'm just...not enough into the BJD stuff right now to make myself go through all that work.

Mneh...